Bid farewell to the Cigarette Century
Some of my smoking pals in New York City feel outraged and betrayed at the apparent perfidy of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's anti-smoking crusade. Then, at a time when the city...
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Rights matter in circus trials
Accused terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui is giving fair trials a bad name. That's probably just what he wants to do and the Bush administration seems to be remarkably eager to let...
Dummying up: For fear of reading a book about the Koran
I'll say this for Bill O'Reilly. Unlike some other windbags of radio and TV, he's not afraid to invite guests on his Fox News Channel program who, even if he's...
Jousting with Rumsfeld
OK, let's put the big question of the day to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld right up front: Is the United States going to invade Iraq? His eyebrows arch. He casts...
Fortress Washington–with spies too
If anything is unsettling about the International Spy Museum, Washington's big surprise-hit museum of this summer, it is the ghostly presence of another spy world, the one you are not...
Powell’s premature obituaries
Secretary of State Colin Powell must be feeling a bit like Mark Twain, who, after hearing that his obituary had been published in the New York Journal, quipped that "the...
Snooping around could turn tricky
Hearing U.S. Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft defend the government's new Operation TIPS program on Capitol Hill, I marvel at his ability to make an idea that might be quite useful...
Tiger tanks in more ways than one
So Tiger Woods is human after all. The worst playing day of his professional career helped him to lose the British Open. Big time. I wonder if his conscience was...
Having a father-son discussion about war
"Dad, are we going to war against Iraq?" Well, gee, son, now that you mention it, it looks like we are. "When?" Well, maybe by the end of the year....
Jackson plays race card with 2 left feet
If you were as surprised as I was to hear Michael Jackson charge the head of his record company with racism, perhaps the answer is in the stars. This revelation...